National Sex Offender Registry

Family Watch Dog Bookmark this link and use it. I pulled the following facts off of the Family Watchdog website:

The sad facts about sex offenses and those that perpetrate them.

impact on society.

• 1 of 5 girls will be sexually molested before her 18th birthday.
  
• 1 of 6 boys will be sexually molested before his 18th birthday.
  
• 1 of 5 children have been propositioned for sex over the Internet.
  
• 2 of 3 sexual abuses are perpetrated against teenagers or younger children.
  
• 90% of sexual assaults are committed against someone the perpetrator knows.
  
• The median age for male molestation victims under 18 is 9.8 years old.
  
• The median age for female molestation victims under 18 is 9.6 years old.
  
• There are new 400,000 victims of sexual assault every year.
  
• There are over 550,000 registered sex offenders in the US.
  
• There are over 100,000 sex offenders that fail to register in the US.
  
• 76% of serial rapists claim they were molested as children.
  
• Over 40% of male juvenile delinquents were molested as children.

This website and the Indiana Sex Offender Registry are two great services provided to us free of charge to help us protect the safety of our children. When you have some down time, do yourself a huge favor and make yourself aware. Peruse these websites. Map your own address and search the radius around your home. Search further. Look to see who these people are and where they are working and living. I did this the other day after AWB brought to light the sex offender clusters. I was shocked at some of the things I found. I found one offender who I have dealt with in business and did not know he was a molester. He does not have his place of employment registered. He works in a business that takes him into residential settings on a daily basis. It scared the hell out of me because I almost invited him into my home to do some work.

Please use these tools and be very aware. Our children are the most precious possessions we have, and they are only on loan for us to keep care of and protect.

Posted by Lucy.